in reply to Re^2: Order of flock and open (mandatory locking)
in thread Order of flock and open

I'd like to ask: are the two manditory file locking methods mentioned above called by the perl flock call? If so, that'd be good for portable code. If not, you've got a big cludge in which you have to examine the operating system to determine what to use.

thor

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Re^4: Order of flock and open
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on May 02, 2003 at 15:40 UTC
    I did say Linux supports .. :) Depending on what you're trying to do, it might be helpful to know. If you are trying to write portable code, then it certainly isn't.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      You may have misunderstood what I was trying to say. What I was hoping was that behind the scenes, perl used these manditory schemes, or perhaps there was a magic module that used one subroutine to portably call the manditory scheme, regardless of OS. Sounds like that's not the case. One can always hope...:)

      thor

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